In 1861, linguist Manuel Milà i Fontanalssplit Catalan into two main dialects: Western and Eastern. The most obvious phonetic difference lies in the treatment of unstressed a and e, which have merged to /ə/ in Eastern dialects, but

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Vowels
Catalan has inherited the typical vowel system of Vulgar Latin, with seven stressed phonemes: /a ɛ e i ɔ o u/, a common feature in Western Romance, except Spanish, Asturian, and Aragonese. Balearichas

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In verbs, the 1st person present indicative ending is -e (∅ in verbs of the 2nd and 3rd conjugation), or -o. For parle, tem, sent (Valencian); parlo, temo, sento (North-Western). In verbs, the 1st person present indicative ending is -o, -i or ∅ in all conjugations. For

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Continental Catalan may refer to:
• Northern–Eastern Catalan, Central–Eastern Catalan and Northwestern Catalan, all spoken in mainland Catalonia, as opposed to

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• Carbonell, Joan F.; Llisterri, Joaquim (1999). "Catalan". Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide to the Usage of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 54–55. ISBN 978-0-521-63751-0

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Insular Catalan may refer to:
• the Balearic subdialects, mainly spoken on the islands of Ibiza, Majorca and Minorca.

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